Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: Leslie Richardson

Join me live on Saturday February 20th, 2021 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner for season 2, show #16 where I will interview Leslie Richardson, Technical Program Manager II at Microsoft on the Visual Studio team. Send me your questions for Leslie by tweeting it to @realDotNetDave and #RockinCodeWorld. You can also email your questions …

Rock Your Code :Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET – 7th Edition

I'm excited to announce the 7th edition on my coding standards book for Microsoft .NET 5! This book is a compilation of common Microsoft .NET coding standards in use today. In the past, for languages like Visual Basic, Microsoft published coding standards in a single document that developers could follow or use as a basis …

Analyzing Code for Issues in .NET 5

How do you find issues in your code? Many of these rules have been ingrained in my brain for the over 20 years I have been using .NET, but I still need to use tools to speed up this process or to find the ones I miss. Using a tool like Analyze in Visual Studio will …

Rockin’ The Code World with dotNetDave – Special Guest: Kathleen Dollard

Join me live on Saturday December 5th, 2020 at 10:00 PST on C# Corner for Show #8 where I will interview Kathleen Dollard, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and works on products like Visual Studio. I have known Kathleen since the 1990's while working with her on CompuServe and writing for a Visual Basic magazine. …

Visual Studio 2019 Issues/ Features Needed

There isn't a perfect application ever released, and the same is true for Visual Studio 2019. There are a lot of great features in VS2019, but there are many issues too, especially when it comes to .NET Core projects. So I decided to create a running list of the issues that I find or find …

The World Pandemic is Showing Us Websites Are Still Too Hard to Write

Since the 2019 COVID-19 virus pandemic started, one of the issues that I have seen is how hard it is for governments, non-profit’s, etc. to quickly stand up (get it into production) a website. I’m not talking about blogs, but data-driven sites like the ones that show us the latest infection rate information. The worldwide …

256 Seconds with dotNetDave (E10) – My Workflow Before I Submit Code Changes

In this episode of 256 Seconds with dotNetDave, I will share my workflow on what I do before I submit code changes to source control. This video will explain it in detail. I share this workflow because it makes sure that I rarely get bug tickets from quality assurance and hopefully it will for you …

256 Seconds with dotNetDave (E9) – Fixing NuGet Hell Issues in Visual Studio

In this episode of 256 Seconds with dotNetDave, I show how to help NuGet hell issues in Visual Studio. If you have issues building because of NuGet package errors, this episode will show how to use a Powershell script on how to fix it! This script could also help with DLL issues too. Powershell Script …

How To Tell Your Open Source Projects Are Done with Jeff Fritz

Join us for Episode 5 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about: Dogfooding: David talks about his frustration logging into Microsoft Teams. WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody discusses public computer displays showing sensitive information in an error! Guest We are joined by our guest Jeff Fritz from …

Properly Setting Up .NET Core Projects

Visual Studio by default does not set all the appropriate options to help you write rock-solid .NET Core code. Below are the recommendations that your team should use for C# projects. All the following recommendations are for Visual Studio 2019. If you have an older version, most of this should still apply. To learn the …